I am a newcomer to the game and I have been browsing the boards trying to figure out if I want to move to one of the Advanced Jobs. I admit, I was not thinking of PLD at all. I wasn't keen on the idea of tanking until I saw the humor shared in this group.

Now I'm settled.

Besides, I could relate to a few of the Provoke posts. I think that says something.

Thank you for putting a face on being PLD.

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---------------------------- Name: Sithion Server: Hades Race: Elvaan Job: 27WAR 14MNK I am truly looking forward to the moments when I can say "Go on without me, I'll hold them off!" I do not fear death. I only wish to do it with Honor and in the service of others.

- When you know your rng is about to pull hate before the monster even turns and cast cureIII (cause you feel like using cover) before the ranger gets hit but by the time it lands the cureIII heals for max.

- When you tell the thf to SATA off of the ranger cuase you would rather be the one getting hit the entire fight. (this one really gets you some looks)

- When you die 3 times on one lizard tryin to lvl whm in the dunes and laugh about it.

- Cant stand being in a party with other tanks becuase they cant hold agro.

- When you yell at your screen when the pld in you party in the dunes doesnt use thier mp.

- When you yell at your screen when the pld in your party in the dunes only casts banish.

- When you know your going to die and there is nothing anyone can do about it 30secs before you die.( I love sitting back and watching as everyone in the party uses every hate gaining ability they got and it still wont leave you alone)

- When you die and giggle as you see how much dmg everyone else is taking from the same monster

- When you check how much def you have every ten mins

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Sorry for the bad spelling/grammar. I have forgotten more about computers and electronics then most people will ever know but **** will freeze over before I understand the proper uses of too and to.

- when you can truthfully call yourself a "dirt connoisseur" - when you take 300 damage from a sickle slash and say "meh" - when you feel terrible that you lost hate to a sata viper bite - when you scream provoke on 3 seperate mobs and tank them all in garliage citadel (without dying) - when you go to dunes and beat the daylights out of every undead you see... just cause you're pld.

*P.S. It's true, my party feels worse when I die then I do. I spend the entire time while I'm weakened ready to tank, and comforting the rest of the party >.<*

*P.P.S. Was leveling Dragoon a bit in Dunes... and I voked... multiple times...*

- When you tank in a party with nukehappy BLMs and crazy RNGs perfectly fine while reading this entire thread X_x;' - When you do a search of PLDs in your level range in the same zone, find them, check them, and compare armor {repetitive} - When you insist on tanking in the dunes as DRK because your WAR is an idiot (How hard is it to grasp the concept of voking every 30 seconds?!?!)

Great posts by everyone, but here's one I have done too many times to count You know you've been a pld to long when... you are driving on the freeway and a car speeds by you and you say to yourself "that guy just stole all the hate" and you speed up so that if anyone is going to get a ticket it's going to be you.

-when in mid battle you get a bad pop / link and start mashing you Flash macro, then the shield bash macro, only then do you realize you are leveling War...

-when the Blm MB freeze for 1200+ damage, starts running behind you, and you ask what they are doing cause the Mob never moved. >:) Did that for the first time this weekend, talk about a grin on my face you couldn't slap off. :D

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"Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a ***** in the valley. "

well, i kept ripping hate from SA Sturmwind (250-400 DMG) - and whenever barric voked hate back off me i automatically re-voked when he took hate back >:D even though thf should be behind the mob i just couldnt stop voking by instinct lol, i cant get outta a pld state of mind where i always need to tank >.>

---------------------------- Name: Sithion Server: Hades Race: Elvaan Job: 27WAR 14MNK I am truly looking forward to the moments when I can say "Go on without me, I'll hold them off!" I do not fear death. I only wish to do it with Honor and in the service of others.

-You have to buy the lvl 60 Gold/Gilt Armor because you think the AF armor is too flashy for your Royal Great Sword. (Guilty) -You sit in water to "clean" your armor. (Guilty) -You make/create the actual AF armor to wear to a Convention. -You actually try to order Tav. Tacos at the local Mexican resturant. (Guilty ><) -You ask a Red Lobster waitress if they have the Shallops Tropical special. -You buy the most defensive armor for your WHM. -You tank as a WHM. -You go to Souplantation and create your own Tav. Salad. -You try to create the +1 version of the Tav. Salad. -You are lvling DRK and still use sword and shield.

When you keep reading this post and keep relating to it and keep feeling the comradery and then want to go home and do all the things in this post and then do it.

And you have 2 Invincible macros, your regular one...and your special one:

/ja "Invincible" <me> /wait 1 {Invincible} >> <me>! /wait 1 Run! Save yourselves and leave me to die, my sacrafice is for you and I do it without hesitation or resentment! /wait 1 Leave me to die the noble death I am deserved. Come <bt>, let us finish this mano y mano.

-when you agree to tank a 65+ NM at level 51 for a friend just to see how long you can last. >;-)

-when you fight the NM Pug for your AF boots, get hit by Screwdriver for an insane amount of damage, fall, get raised, and start tanking it again. (Thanks Dainid, Joshuaf, and all the members of Cheapskinks for helping) /kneel

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"Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a ***** in the valley. "

- You stood up and did a happy dance when you hit lv29 and first equipped your Eisen/Kampf set because you were finally wearing armor it looked like a real Paladin would wear.

/panic

You mean I have to wait until level 29 for the "good stuff"?

OK, I'm tempted to start a thread: "You know you want to be a Paladin too much when..."

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---------------------------- Name: Sithion Server: Hades Race: Elvaan Job: 27WAR 14MNK I am truly looking forward to the moments when I can say "Go on without me, I'll hold them off!" I do not fear death. I only wish to do it with Honor and in the service of others.

you totally flipped when someone told you want a tran taco did. you tell the thf to sata behind the DD cause you know you'll hold the hate you try to show your way better than all the ninja's in your hnml.

you find yourself hitting your voke macro when lvling jobs without that ability.

you feel a burning need to tank anything and everything no matter how hard it is.

when you have to equip a round shield you think it looks too pansy.

Uh.... Guilty

****, I need to level WAR and get this quest out of the way.... I'm missing out!

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---------------------------- Name: Sithion Server: Hades Race: Elvaan Job: 27WAR 14MNK I am truly looking forward to the moments when I can say "Go on without me, I'll hold them off!" I do not fear death. I only wish to do it with Honor and in the service of others.

I'm guilty of just about everything in here but anyway heres a few of mine....you know you've been a PLD too long when... -You decide to lvl whm and your magic lvls aren't capped past lvl 10... -Your cure heals for more than the RDM's.... -When you lose hate even if nobody dies you {I'm sorry} to the whole pt.... -You buy armor so far in advance that when you equip it people ask you how much it costs and you say "I forgot".... -You actually have a large enough MP pool to PL pt's in the dunes w/o whm sub..... -Your lvl 45+ and still have a cache-nez worked into your provoke macro to add hate....and lastly -When you party in the dunes as a non-tank job and you give the current tank pointers cause he's a n00b so he cusses you out in n00b and then calls you an idiot....yeah and he doesn't believe you have a 60 PLD even though your rank 6.....n00bs XD

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Kao wrote:

I thought I banned you like six times?

The asylumites wrote:

Dammit why are you still posting here?

Barack Hussien Obama wrote:

We are 5 days away from fundamentally changing the USA

I don't see such change, and honestly I don't think I want to. I like capitalism, I like it a lot.

You know you been a paladin to long when you start paladin over again to use the new armor. You know you been a paladin to long when you died over 2,206 time and count them all. (note only 2,184 as pld)

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name : ptown A Paladin is frist to step on battle feild and last to leave.